LOTR Characters: Reader's version vs. actor's portrayal

[Legolas]

Robbie Coltrain was in Harry Potter...he's more of a Dwarf person I think
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[Jessa]

hehehe.......me likes dwarfies

 

[Legolas]

for goodness sakes Jess be intelligent! Elves - you like Elves!
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[Shaun]

Originally posted by ray gower
Robi Coltrain, David Jason, Tom Baker or John Pertwee (if he is still about)?
All are excellent comic actors and would fit nicely.

Again, I have no clue of who you're talking about.

And Legolas, whats wrong with liking Dwarves?

 

[ray gower]

Sorry, International Time lag.

Coltrain has appeared in Bond films, last time out as a former head of KGB now International Racketeer. So thought he would be recogniseable.

Baker and Pertwee were well known Doctor Who's (third and fourth incarnations). Baker in particular is one of those that is 'Larger than Life' and a 'Real' Shakespearian actor.

Jason has a string of TV series. Fools and Horses, Frost, Darling Buds of May, McCorba. I confess I don't know how International these went. Some did make the US, but I don't know about Aus.

 

[Shaun]

I just didn't recognise any of the names but some of those shows and characters sound some what familiar, especially Coltrains character.

 

[Jessa]

Originally posted by Legolas
for goodness sakes Jess be intelligent! Elves - you like Elves!
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me likes Hobbitses and dwarfies and humanies AND elvies

 

[Legolas]

talk proper woman learn urself some decent language or u is talkin' bad!
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[Jessa]

me likes the way i talks! u the one with the problem!

 

[Legolas]

oh Jessa...

Anyway who didn't look like what you saw in your head? Haldir certainly didn't look anything like the one in my haid. His hair was kinda Silver-blonde in my head and he wasn't so mean looking.
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[Jessa]

i likes the orcs etc. they very real lookin'

they was groovy! :flash:

 

[Legolas]

I know! they musta sat in makeup for about...a week to shoot a 10 munute scene and then again to take it all off OMG!
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[Shaun]

Plus it all helps them get into character. Sitting down for that long while they put the makeup on is bound to make someone angry and cranky, just like an orc.

 

[Legolas]

ya I know! how agonisingly boring that must be! Not to mention about 10 ppl all around you debating whether ur hairy ears are crooked enough! Which were the best orcs, by way of makeup - the goblins or the uruk hai? I mean you gotta love the big blueness that is Lertz! he musta had a hell of a time getting all blued up like that, but he played a great orc whoever he was
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[Jessa]

all the hobbit people say the amount of time it took to put on the feet was amazing........and disgusting. they had to slide their foot into it and get it covered in cold glue :dead:

 

[Shaun]

I thought Boromir in the movie was a lot more sympathetic than in the books. Both the writing and the actors portrayal made him softer, like him teaching the hobbits to fight and his speech in Lorien. I just didn't have the same feeling about him when reading the book.

 

[Jessa]

i love the part on the mountain, where their messin about, then the hobbits jump Boromir. that is so funny! :laugh2:

 

[Legolas]

yea in the book I didn't like him...in the film I hated him! He was kinda soft...in the book i was like...whoa not messin' w/ this guy he got somethin' wrong in dee 'ed, but in the film I was like....'pah you not so tuff!'

did think he looked like how I imagined him to look tho.
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[Jessa]

i thought he was cool! i liked him more actually

 

[Legolas]

Seeing as I'd never read the Hobbit before I read LOTR, I didn't really have a clue what Hobbits were supposed to look like.

It wasn't til it got the mt caradhras I realised how small they actulally were!
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